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Fatima

  • 20152015
  • Not RatedNot Rated
  • 1h 19m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
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Soria Zeroual in Fatima (2015)
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An immigrant mother realizes that her daughters become estranged.An immigrant mother realizes that her daughters become estranged.An immigrant mother realizes that her daughters become estranged.
IMDb RATING
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1.5K
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POPULARITY
100,668
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    • Director
      • Philippe Faucon
    • Writers
      • Philippe Faucon(scenario)
      • Aziza Boudjellal(scenario consultant)
      • Mustapha Kharmoudi(scenario consultant)
    • Stars
      • Soria Zeroual
      • Zita Hanrot
      • Kenza Noah Aïche
    Top credits
    • Director
      • Philippe Faucon
    • Writers
      • Philippe Faucon(scenario)
      • Aziza Boudjellal(scenario consultant)
      • Mustapha Kharmoudi(scenario consultant)
    • Stars
      • Soria Zeroual
      • Zita Hanrot
      • Kenza Noah Aïche
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 3User reviews
    • 39Critic reviews
    • 69Metascore
    • Awards
      • 5 wins & 1 nomination

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    Franck Andrieux in Fatima (2015)
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    Zita Hanrot, Soria Zeroual, and Kenza Noah Aïche in Fatima (2015)

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    Soria Zeroual
    • Fatima
    Zita Hanrot
    Zita Hanrot
    • Nesrine
    Kenza Noah Aïche
    • Souad
    Chawki Amari
    • Le père
    Dalila Bencherif
    • Leila
    Edith Saulnier
    Edith Saulnier
    • Séverine
    Corinne Duchesne
    • La propriétaire appartement
    Emir El Guerfi
    • Copain Sélim
    Zakaria Ali-Mehidi
    • Sélim
    Zahra Addioui
    • Femme cité 1
    Nadia Hamied
    • Femme cité 2
    Isabelle Candelier
    Isabelle Candelier
    • Employeuse Fatima
    Franck Andrieux
    • Médecin traitant Fatima
    Christiane Laroche
    • La mère de l'employeuse de Fatima
    Hélène Balazard
    • Employée Crédit Municipal
    Claire Brodiez
    • Enseignante alphabétisation
    Fatima Herda
    • Fille campus 1
    Taïs Kazouan
    • Fille campus 2
    • Director
      • Philippe Faucon
    • Writers
      • Philippe Faucon(scenario) (adaptation) (dialogue)
      • Aziza Boudjellal(scenario consultant)
      • Mustapha Kharmoudi(scenario consultant)
    • All cast & crew
    • Production, box office & more at IMDbPro

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    • Trivia
      Producer Fabienne Vonnier came to Philippe Faucon with the project but unfortunately died before work started.
    • Connections
      References Gremlins (1984)
    • Soundtracks
      Osez Joséphine
      Lyrics by Jean Fauque and Alain Bashung

      Music by Alain Bashung

      Performed by Alain Bashung

      (from the 1991 album "Osez Joséphine")

    User reviews3

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    8/10
    "How can you talk to your mother or father if you don't know their language?"
    OK solid film, interesting enough, excellent topic, wonderful script, realistic and entertaining scenes, beautifully connected and told storyline.

    Except the acting. Excluding older sister Nesrine. I relate to her SO much and everything you see her say/experience/do, and the actress played the role rather modestly but then her smile and crying is superb. Believable, though her role was rather limited. She basically deals with the identity struggles as a nonwhite woman emerging in a society that praises women for their looks and class, especially chic French cities like the one she dwells in. All while balancing an increasingly dysfunctional household, stressful coursework ( in a subject the director shows she is massively outnumbered in), social pressures, and poverty. And it doesn't help that people turn her down for an apartment so much. And she doesn't seem to be working. I like the role more than the actress but she was good.

    But the mother and younger sister Souad need help in the acting department; the mother took this film for a high school production, particularly in a scene where she got hurt; people have died in the way she got hurt. Yet instead of wailing in pain and for help she says her words like, "ah...ahhhh..." No emotions, anything, and it all seems contrived. There's one scene where she is opening up to someone in Arabic and it literally looks like she's reading off cue cards, you will see. And then Souad doesn't move anything on her face for the entire movie. Even when she yells. But it didn't deter me from the film/didn't put me off from finishing it. Because everything else is too grasping.

    OK the film is about Moroccan immigrants in France: the dad is a manual labourer, and the mother has to clean for a living under curt supervisors that always happen to be female in this movie; this alludes to the fact that male immigrants of colour might have to resort to lowly work at first, and that certain white women can belittle women of colour, including immigrants, through their treatment towards them, especially as their bosses. It was almost uncomfortable to see how her bosses spoke to her, and it's kind of impossible to not see it in a racial way now. This separation between class, race, culture and language rubs off on their 1st- generation daughters' self esteem; Souad is a rebellious high school student and Nesrine is a studious university student. So Souad has a more modern, Eff You approach to this division, and Nesrine has a more old-school Little Engine That Could approach to her adversities. It's cute and pragmatic, how the director/writer balled these contrasting personalities and perspectives into one household and film. Now...I don't know if it's sensitivity to the reality of these social issues, or simply bias for stereotypes from the director....

    There continues to be a lot of nuance in this film with race. I'm going to ignore the fact that the film decided to cast an actress that is a European looking girl for Souad's role, because the shoes she is filling are about an African-Muslim. The racial undertone is that staff at her school disrespects her, to be honest, though her reactions to them are out of control yet realistic. The implications are that the white staff are condescending to her and the African-Arab Phys Ed teacher only picks on her and her friend, though they are like him and the only two nonwhite students, and female. Well basically Souad just won't put up with that. The script never directly states, "they only pick on me because I'm not white, and my Phys Ed teacher is a traitor to humiliate us," it is implied, yet undeniably what the scene is about when you watch it. I've never experienced a scene like that in real life but race traitors do exist. And that's very good filmmaking: providing a vision and a concise script, and then stepping back without shying away from things as they still smoothly play out for the audience to interpret. Troubling themes that are made watchable and enjoyable here, to me. Just work on the acting. And a key element in French independent film seems to be a calm lack of music throughout the film so if you're new to it don't feel bored.
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    • Apr 15, 2017

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    • Release date
      • October 7, 2015 (France)
    • Countries of origin
      • France
      • Canada
    • Languages
      • French
      • Arabic
    • Also known as
      • Фатима
    • Filming locations
      • Lyon, Rhône, Rhône-Alpes, France
    • Production companies
      • Istiqlal Films
      • Arte France Cinéma
      • Rhône-Alpes Cinéma
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    Box office

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    • Gross US & Canada
      • $50,105
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $6,221
      • Aug 28, 2016
    • Gross worldwide
      • $212,228
    See detailed box office info on IMDbPro

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 19 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.85 : 1

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